Adidas SENIOR MANAGER ECOM EU PLANNING FORECASTING TEMP MONTHS 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

746662111

Scope: Accountable for leading the eCom Financial Planning and Forecasting team to develop and maintain advanced processes that drive data-led decision-making and identify risks and opportunities to ensure adidas meets its digital market objectives.

1. Business Planning

• Manage and own the end-to-end lifecycle of business planning and forecasting processes for the Europe eCommerce business.
• Participate in and lead part of the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, providing the Finance team with realistic bottom-up forecasts to help them create official target submissions.
• Support the business with daily demand targets and month-end projections to enable better decision-making and optimize business plans.
• Support on identifying opportunities and determine actions to close gaps and achieve business goals and objectives.
• Develop and integrate automated models to reduce reliance on manual inputs.
• Master a deep understanding of business planning, target setting, budgeting, and campaign planning processes and data flows to effectively communicate, assess, and prioritize with stakeholders.

1. Consulting

• Develop strong relationships with business partners to understand their goals and objectives, outline analytic requirements, and provide solutions to business needs, ensuring high-quality inputs for forecast processes.
• Actively identify opportunities and determine actions to achieve business goals and objectives.
• Provide ad-hoc analyses and build business cases to facilitate insights into the business as needed.

1. Reporting

• Co-initiate and help implement new reporting structures within your area of responsibility.
• Ensure data accuracy and quality across all outputs provided by your team.
• Continuously innovate reporting and tracking systems to enable stakeholders to monitor sales predictions, potential shortfalls, and future uplifts.

1. People Management

• Create a supportive work environment where employees are coached, trained, and provided with career development opportunities.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate team workload and organizational efficiency using data and team feedback, making appropriate changes to meet business needs.
• Provide team members with clear direction and targets aligned with business needs and market objectives.

Key Relationships:

• eCom Finance, eCom Trading, eCom Brand Activation
• eCom Operations (Order Fulfillment, Payments, Platform Operations)
• eCom SCM
• eCom Omnichannel Team
• Global Digital Analytics

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Passion for delivering data-driven recommendations that lead to quantifiable improvements in business results and consumer satisfaction.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex topics to stakeholders at various organizational levels, both in person and remotely.
• Strong analytical skills, capable of understanding and simplifying complex systems.
• Extensive knowledge of financial and operational processes, and KPIs.
• People management skills are a plus
• Extensive experience in business intelligence practices, including querying, enhancing, interpreting, and delivering moderate to large datasets (proficiency in SQL and coding skills preferred).
• Proficient in using ETL tools such as Alteryx, Knime, and SPSS Modeler.
• Advanced MS Excel skills.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in the field of Business or equivalent
• 4+ years of experience in analytics field
• 7+ years of work experience
• Experience in eCommerce environment
• Experience in leading a team is a plus